Being A Southpaw (a.k.a. Left-handed)

Writing back-handed is having the hand twisted in such a way as to not allow the side of the hand to drag through the ink. The side of the hand is raised slightly and is above the work on the top part of the page. I hope this helps :)

When you mention knives the thing I remember now is my mom was always sharpening the knife when she was cutting the roasts or other pieces of meat. For bread she always used a serrated knife so I don't know if she found it dull or not.
 
Thanks Jacquie for enlightening me! :) That sounds so exhausting to do, though. Kind of hard just thinking about it. Kudos to your Mom for finding a way that suits her well. I've seen some lefties write with their notebooks completely askew or even sideways as well. Funny that you've picked up some lefty mannerisms from your Mom. :)
 
Someone sent me this link the other day. Sadly we have missed 'Left Handed Day' for this year, but I'm sure there will be one next year too. :lol:

Yes, I am very left handed, as is my husband so we have many useful items especially for left handers around our house, including the left handed cheque book (which has been around for years now but still confuses right handers when they see you use it, they think you're writing upside down...), left handed mouse, keyboards, can openers, and I'm waiting for my left handed cake forks to arrive in the post... Seriously, even cake forks are made for right handed people... It's a strange world for the left hander!

And no, neither parent of mine or my husband is left handed, and in my brief look into the genetics of it, apparantly handedness is difficult predict and isn't particularly linked to the parents. So even as left handers, we aren't much more likely to produce a left handed child than a right handed couple would be. Weird huh? Although such studies haven't been around that long as people did used to be forced to use their other hand, so actual accepted left handedness was difficult to research.

I work in a small organisation and 4 of us are left handed. Considering only 12 people work there, it's more than one would expect, and we like to say we are the special ones, the talented ones, and the most creative ones, even if there is probably little truth to it! :lol: I do admit that as a left hander I pretty much immediately notice another left hander and am quite intrigued by it, I don't know why, maybe I just like being different and finding others that share those differences with me.
 
I'm a leftie. As is my sister in a large family of mostly right handed people.
I've never had any problem with being left handed. I've adapted to using right handed stuff like scissors in my left hand. In fact oddly enough I can't use left handed scissors properly.
I also can only text using my right thumb, using my left thumb is very uncomfortable which is annoying considering my right thumb I broke nearly 10 years ago and is prone to seizing up.
I write at an angle so my paper is always tilted to the left and therefore I avoid smudging ink. I am also left footed.
 
I'm left handed! Dominantly left handed I suppose because I do most one-handed tasks with the left hand. The sight in my left eye is also slightly better than the right too which is rather odd.

I play guitar the right handed way but it would probably be more comfortable for me if I bothered to switch it to left.
 
I forgot to mention, that i play a right-handed guitar too. It's just easier, coz on the right-handed guitar, the left hand does all the work anywayz.


PSG xxx
 
I'm a leftie! And proud of it! That's why I always notice what hand people write with.

I always find that I just use right-handed stuff in my left hand cos that's what I'm used to. There wasn't a lot of left-handed stuff at school so I've just adapted and will choose to use RH stuff. For kids now there's a lot of stuff for lefties but when I was at school it was just coming in.

I write at a tilt too. The paper I'm writing on usually ends up being almost horizontal, so the paper look landscape rather than portrait, with the top of the paper is at my right. Everyone says that's weird but I can't write any other way. It's a nightmare writing on boards and stuff - my writing always ends up almost diagonal, lol.

Quick question: does anyone else not tie laces the same way as everyone else? I was wondering if that was a leftie thing or if it's just me :lol:. I struggled so much learning to tie my laces when I was a kid. My mum thinks it's because I was learning off people who were RH, and so I've got my own way of tying laces. Just wondering.
 
Hey Elsie, cake forks for lefties? Wow that's amazing! Thanks for posting the link as well. :) I think I've been to that website before. As for me, I've never used any tools made specially for lefties. I should buy them though for my own convenience.

As for left-handedness being genetic, it's my maternal grandfather who was a lefty. I've got two maternal aunts and a paternal uncle who are lefties as well. Among my paternal cousins, three of us are lefties. About a month ago, my sister was watching the news on BBC and she texted me that scientists have found the gene that causes left-handedness, and that the same gene may also cause mental disease. Check it out here.

nessy, I use my right hand as well when texting since I find it easier to do.

faith666, as for your shoelace-tying question, I tie mine the way most righties do. My Mom taught me and she is a righty. Oh well... :D
 
I'm a righty, but my friend from school was left-handed and it was great when we were in the same lessons and sat next to each other because our arms never got in the way like my right handed friends did
 
I had trouble learning to tie my laces aswell. I don't know if I tie them different to right-handed people tho. I guess i've never noticed, but it probably is different, since when my mum tried to teach me her way i couldn't do it.
 
Someone mentioned sitting at a restaurant, I used to always sit in the inside or the outside so I would bump into other people while they are eating. Now, it's not a problem so much anymore

Both of my daughters are right handed too... so is my husband
 
Haha, shoe laces, I forgot about those! I still have issues trying to tie my shoes, all my friends are like "use your right hand!" but I never taught myself how to use my right hand to tie shoes, I tried too, it just never worked :p

I think the biggest thing when I was little was scissors. I now can't cut a striaght line to save my life. But I remember when I was in Girl guides I would get yelled at for using scissors with the wrong hand. I tried with my right hand, and almost cut my hand open, ever since then I cut with my left hand, and still can't cut striaght lines :p
 
I'm a proud lefty but i cannot use left-handed scissors and i play the guitar right-handed, so i guess i'm just a little strange! But I do find it funny when people will see me writing in school and say something like, "OMG, you're left-handed!" Plus I can remember when I was like, 4 years old I think, I had this old-fashioned child-minder and one my uncle picked me up from there and she says in this hushed voice like it's something scandalous "Erm. . . your niece is showing some left-handed tendencies." The look on my uncle's face was priceless and he just looked at her and said something like "And?" I just giggled all the way home! :D
 
I always have a hard time using a pair of scissors with dull blades...Sometimes I can't even use it at all...I always have to ask someone else to cut things for me...If the blades are sharp, no problem but after using them for a while, my left hand gets fatigued. As for me, I can't cut a straight line to save my life either. :lol:

I have a friend who is also a lefty and she told me that she taught herself to use a pair of scissors with her right hand since everyone else was doing it in her school. She said she had to practice it over time.
 
Ooh! Proud lefty here!
I can't really think of anything that I've ever had a big problem with except getting major graphite and ink stains on my pinky in school...that's always a drag. I tie my shoes differently as well and have to sit on the outside at restaurants, but those are pretty minor.

I really like to talk with other lefties about all the famous left-handed people in history, too (like Leonardo Di Vinci, Picasso, etc). Actually, I just found a cool site that lists a bunch of them:

http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/left.html#Miscellaneous

:)
 
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